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The demo is probably running on a free heroku instance which means a single thread on an itsy-bitsy EC2 instance. At the top of HN we're talking at least 500 concurrent visitors... on a single thread.


Bingo. It's on the free heroku, hence the trouble staying alive. Here's an image of what the demo looks like: http://cl.ly/image/321Y2V361X1r




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